Career Coaching Skills for Helping Youth
1. Module 1 – Trends in the workplace
- Trends in the employment landscape
- Why career planning skills are more critical than ever for students
- The need for students to take greater responsibility for their own careers
- The impact of social media and Web 2.0 technologies on career planning
- Me, Inc. – creating a “brand” that makes students more employable
- Building a competency portfolio to match employer needs
- How employers are responding to trends and influencing career options
- The rise of certification and credentialing
- The new basics expected by employers
- Workplace learning and performance – a lifelong process
2. Module 2 – Stepping away from the trees to see the employer forest
- Career counseling for youth: what worked before isn’t working today
- Keeping pace with the changing demands of career counseling for youth
- How education professionals can play a more active role
- The role of the educator in the career planning process
- A competency model for today’s career counselors for youth
- Establishing a network of career coaches and mentors to help students
- Establishing stronger links between educators and employers in your community
3. Module 3 – Developing a strategic view for meeting the needs and expectations of employers
- Surveying your school system’s strengths and successes in career development
- Identifying opportunities in the area’s workplace environment to build new competence in career development services
- Creating a strategic vision of what the school system can do in career development
- Developing options and actions for the school system
- Determining key criteria for measuring the school system’s effectiveness in career development